If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.

I don't think you should have firearms where people are drinking.

We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.

If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?

We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.